Westerfeld, Scott

Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate "Lynx" faces the nearly impossible task of stopping the next wave of the Rix invasion with just his ship, while his lover Senator Nara Oxham is in danger of learning a secret the Emperor will kill to keep.

Zai and pacifist senator Nara Oxham challenge the Rix, machine-augmented people who worship planet-sized beings with artificial intelligence and seek to supplant the power of the undead Emperor and his sister, the Child Empress, who have ruled for sixteen hundred years.

Pearl, Moz, and Zahler team up with a vampire lead singer and a drummer who can foresee future events when a bizarre epidemic hits New York City that threatens total annihilation.

In an alternative civilization where the social status of each person is monitored and rated and anyone can drop from celebrity to nobody, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse's popularity ranking is so low her only chance of moving up is to find a good story, so when she meets a group of girls who hide an explosive secret, Aya decides to expose the group and unknowingly puts her own life in danger.

Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.

Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one in a special group born at the stroke of midnight who can roam the town at a secret hour while others sleep--and that she must fight the evil creatures who share her power.

Jessica Day, and her four friends, the "midnighters", are the only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.

The Midnighters are baffled when the blue time suddenly occurs in the middle of the day. They soon discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling, and, unless they can stop it, the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting.

Tally's perfect life as a Pretty is disrupted when she receives a letter from herself, written when she was an Ugly, reminding her of the promise she made to take a drug developed to cure the brain lesions that keep the Pretties shallow and happy--and when she takes the pills, she becomes a target of those determined to keep Pretty society carefree.